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* EyeOfNewt: One of the characters is a Teshi monk from the order of the Hidden who can use an ability to discover secrets. To do so, however, the monk has to sacrifice one of his/her own memories or abilities each time he digs up new info.
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* EyeOfNewt: One of the characters is a Teshi monk from the order of the Hidden who can use an ability to discover secrets. To do so, however, the monk has to sacrifice one of his/her their own memories or abilities each time he digs they dig up new info.
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* AmbiguousGender: Taken to the extreme, where one of the characters, devotee of a god of secrets, doesn't even know his/her ''own'' gender. Followers of this deity forfeit knowledge about themselves to honor their patron, and this particular priest lost knowledge of what sex he/she happened to be. Self-examination can't clarify matters, as the character is blind to his/her own body features.
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* AmbiguousGender: Taken to the extreme, where one of the characters, devotee of a god of secrets, doesn't even know his/her their ''own'' gender. Followers of this deity forfeit knowledge about themselves to honor their patron, and this particular priest lost knowledge of what sex he/she they happened to be. Self-examination can't clarify matters, as the character is blind to his/her their own body features.
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* TheMagocracy: There are passing references to a nation called "The Witchocracy", but it's not explored in great detail.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In a roundabout way, the New Crobuzon militia's policy of committing war crimes, intended to hurt Tesh economically, ''not only wins the war against Tesh, but also saves the entire city from certain destruction'':
**[[spoiler: If the militia hadn't gone out of their way to slaughter Qurabin's monastery, then Qurabin wouldn't have had any resentment against Tesh for failing to protect them, nor would he/she have ever met up with Cutter's group in their search for the Iron Council.]]
**[[spoiler: If he/she hadn't met up with Cutter's group, they would never have recognized that the spiral designs peppering New Crobuzon were actually part of Spiral Jacob's hecatomb ritual.]]
**[[spoiler: Without Qurabin, there would have been no way to identify who Jacobs really was, nor anyway to actually stop the ritual and save the city even if they did know.]]
**[[spoiler: By stopping the ritual, Qurabin's actions saved and the city and also compelled Tesh to surrender to New Crobuzon and begin paying reparations.]]
* TheMagocracy: There are passing references to a nation called "The Witchocracy", but it's not explored in greatdetail.detail, beyond being ruled by a "sorcerer-witch hierarchy" per China Mieville's own notes.
**[[spoiler: If the militia hadn't gone out of their way to slaughter Qurabin's monastery, then Qurabin wouldn't have had any resentment against Tesh for failing to protect them, nor would he/she have ever met up with Cutter's group in their search for the Iron Council.]]
**[[spoiler: If he/she hadn't met up with Cutter's group, they would never have recognized that the spiral designs peppering New Crobuzon were actually part of Spiral Jacob's hecatomb ritual.]]
**[[spoiler: Without Qurabin, there would have been no way to identify who Jacobs really was, nor anyway to actually stop the ritual and save the city even if they did know.]]
**[[spoiler: By stopping the ritual, Qurabin's actions saved and the city and also compelled Tesh to surrender to New Crobuzon and begin paying reparations.]]
* TheMagocracy: There are passing references to a nation called "The Witchocracy", but it's not explored in great
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** Most of the Remade, of course.
** There's also the Torque, which did various things to unlucky members of the Iron Council. The only one described in detail was when a railway car full of people turned into a giant amoeba-like cell filled with blobs that wave at people and make cetacean-like sounds.
** There's also the Torque, which did various things to unlucky members of the Iron Council. The only one described in detail was when a railway car full of people turned into a giant amoeba-like cell filled with blobs that wave at people and make cetacean-like sounds.
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** Most of the Remade, of course.
** There's also theThe Torque, which did various things to unlucky members of the Iron Council. The only one described in detail was is when a railway car full of people turned turns into a giant amoeba-like cell filled with blobs that wave at people and make cetacean-like sounds.
** There's also the
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* CoolTrain: The Perpetual Train, [[spoiler: later home of the titular council]] which was initially crawling along laying its own rails as the forefront of an expanding railway network - it has carriages containing everything needed to keep the community of workers building the lines alive and well fed, from an abattoir to a church. [[spoiler:It later goes rogue, and the Council organise its rails to be taken up behind it as they are laid ahead of it, so it essentially becomes a giant, moving LaResistance town.]]
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* CoolTrain: The Perpetual Train, [[spoiler: later home of the titular council]] which was initially crawling along laying its own rails as the forefront of an expanding railway network - -- it has carriages containing everything needed to keep the community of workers building the lines alive and well fed, from an abattoir to a church. [[spoiler:It later goes rogue, and the Council organise its rails to be taken up behind it as they are laid ahead of it, so it essentially becomes a giant, moving LaResistance town.]]
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* DungeonPunk (Magic, referred to as "Thaumaturgy", is commonplace and used by practically every skilled profession)
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* FantasticRacism: Briefly towards the vodyanoi, described as "riverpig," and to a greater extent to the Remade.
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* FantasticRacism: FantasticRacism:
** Briefly towards the vodyanoi, described as "riverpig," and to a greater extent to the Remade.
** Briefly towards the vodyanoi, described as "riverpig," and to a greater extent to the Remade.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: New Crobuzon is heavily inspired from London.
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* TimeStandsStill: Inverted. [[spoiler:Judah's time golem freezes the Iron Council, but nothing else.]]
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* TimeStandsStill: Inverted. [[spoiler:Judah's Judah's time golem freezes the [[spoiler:the Iron Council, but nothing else.]]Council in time]].
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* WretchedHive: New Crobuzon blows almost everything else out of water in terms of sheer ugliness. It's ruled by vicious capitalists who ignore crime against ordinary citizens, but send death squads to deal with dissenters, essentially ensuring that the city stays a brutal lawless mess forever. Criminals, even ones guilty of small-time theft, are punished by mutilating their bodies in horrible and ironic (in reference to the crime) ways. No wonder the people want to revolt.
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* WretchedHive: New Crobuzon blows almost everything else out of water in terms of sheer ugliness. It's ruled by vicious capitalists who ignore crime against ordinary citizens, but send death squads to deal with dissenters, essentially ensuring that the city stays a brutal lawless mess forever. Criminals, even ones guilty of small-time theft, are punished by mutilating their bodies in horrible and ironic (in reference to the crime) ways. No wonder the people want to revolt.revolt
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* ArmiesAreEvil: Given Mieville's views on power structures and socialism, this is to be expected as in the previous Bas Lag novels. In ''Iron Council's'' case, although there is passing mention to battles against Tesh forces, the reader could be forgiven for thinking that the militia exist only to commit war crimes against any civilian they see and antagonise our heroes.
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* CastFullOfGay: Pretty much everyone is gay or bisexual. At least the men are, and there are no significant female characters except Ann-Hari and [[spoiler:Toro]].
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* BiTheWay: Judah Low. May overlap with SingleTargetSexuality, at least where Ann-Hari is concerned as she's the only person he seems to show deep romantic affection for... [[HoYay except maybe]] [[BodyHorror Uzman]], [[HoYay if that kiss was any indication.]]
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* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler:Spiral Jacobs can go all over New Crobuzon by taking physically impossible shortcuts. No backstreet exists that leads from ''here'' to ''there'', and if one existed it shouldn't take so little time to cross -- but Spiral Jacobs makes them exist for him, and he crosses.]]
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* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler:Despite the war going so badly for New Crobuzon that it tried repeatedly to formally surrender, the death of Spiral Jacobs and failure of the Hecatomb causes Tesh to fold instantly for some reason and pay all kinds of concessions to New Crobuzon.]]
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* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler:Despite the war going so badly for New Crobuzon that it tried repeatedly to formally surrender, the death of Spiral Jacobs and consequent failure of the Hecatomb causes Tesh to fold instantly for some reason and pay all kinds of concessions to New Crobuzon.]]
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* SigilSpam: Spiral Jacobs draws spirals everywhere he goes, with varying degrees of complexity. New Crobuzon's various revolutionary movements end up adopting them as a general symbol of freedom and start drawing spirals everywhere too. [[spoiler:Jacob's spirals have a functional purpose: each one is part of a framework for summoning a hecatomb that will obliterate the city.]]
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* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler:Despite the war going so badly for New Crobuzon that it tried repeatedly to formally surrender, the death of Spiral Jacobs and failure of the Hecatomb causes Tesh to fold instantly for some reason and pay all kinds of concessions to New Crobuzon.]]
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Published in 2004, ''Iron Council'' is the latest and perhaps last book of Creator/ChinaMieville's [[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas-Lag Cycle]]. ''Iron Council'' is held to be the most [[{{Anvilicious}} politically-charged]] [[AuthorTract installment]] in the series, which all things considered, is somewhat inevitable given the turbulent political climate that the book takes place in.
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Published in 2004, ''Iron Council'' is the latest and perhaps last third book of Creator/ChinaMieville's [[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas-Lag Cycle]]. ''Iron Council'' is held to be the most [[{{Anvilicious}} politically-charged]] [[AuthorTract installment]] in the series, which all things considered, is somewhat inevitable given the turbulent political climate that the book takes place in.
